| Contents |
v. 1. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter -- State of German literature -- Life and writings of Werner -- Goethe's Helena -- Goeth -- Burns -- Life of Heyne -- German playwrights -- Preface, and introductions, to the book called "German romance." : Preface to German romance -- Musäus -- Fouqué -- Ludwig Tieck -- Hoffmann -- Richter -- Goethe -- Fractions : Tragedy of the night-moth -- Cui bono -- Four fables -- The sower's song -- Adieu -- The beetle -- To-day -- Fortuna -- v. 2. Voltaire -- Novalis -- Signs of the times -- Jean Paul Friedrich Richter again -- On history -- Luther's Psalm --Schiller -- The Nibelungen Lied -- German literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Taylor's historic survey of German poetry -- Jean Paul Friedrich Richter's review of Madame de Stael's 'Allemague' |
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v. 3. Characteristics -- Goethe's portrait -- Biography -- Boswell's life of Johnson -- Death of Goethe -- Goethe's works -- Corn-law rhymes -- On history again -- Diderot -- Count Cagliostro : flight first : flight last -- Death of Edward Irving -- Novelle -- Schiller, Goethe and Madame de Staël -- The tale -- v. 4. The diamond necklace : Age of romance -- The necklace is made -- The necklace cannot be sold -- Affinities : the two fixed-ideas -- The artist -- Will the two fixed-ideas unite? -- Marie-Antoinette -- The two fixed-ideas will unite -- Park of Versailles -- Behind the scenes --The necklace is sold -- The necklace vanishes -- Scene third / by Dame de Lamotte -- The necklace cannot be paid --Scene fourth / by Destiny -- Missa est -- Mirabeau -- Parliamentary history of the French Revolution -- Sir Walter Scott -- Varnhagen von Ense's memoirs -- Petition on the copyright bill -- On the sinking of the Vengeur -- Baillie the Covenanter -- Dr. Francia -- An election to the long parliament -- Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago -- The opera -- Project of a national exhibition of Scottish portraits -- The Prinzenraub. |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy includes leather half binding with marbled boards, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, raised bands, and gilt stamping on spine. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare v. 1-2 Gift of Erwin Hester, 2016. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Critical and miscellaneous essays. Popular ed. . Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 07036026 |
